rror,
shame, and gratitude to his deliverer.

"The consummate assurance of the monsters who were engaged in this plot,
after they had been detected, and upbraided with their treachery, is
scarce to be paralleled; for they not only owned the fact of spiriting
Mr. A-- away in the manner above mentioned, but justified their doing it
as tending to his service. They also maintained, that they had actually
secured the twenty-five thousand pounds for him, though they never could
name any one person who was to have advanced the money. No man was more
active in this scheme than H--, nor any man more solicitous to keep
Mr. A-- up in the false impressions he had received, or in projecting
methods to ruin his protector, than he.

"Among many other expedients for that purpose, a most malicious attempt
was made to lodge an information against him, for treasonable practices,
with the secretary of state, notwithstanding the repeated proofs he had
given of his loyalty; and, as a preparatory step to his accusation, a
letter, which this traitor dictated, was copied by another person, and
actually sent to the earl of C--, importing, that the person who copied
the letter had an affair of consequence to communicate to his lordship,
if he would appoint a time of receiving the information. But that
person, upon full conviction of the villainy of the scheme, absolutely
refused to proceed further in it; so that his malice once more proved
abortive; and before he had time to execute any other contrivance of the
same nature, he was imprisoned in this very jail for debt.

"Here, finding his creditors inexorable, and himself destitute of all
other resource, he made application to the very man whom he had injured
in such an outrageous manner, set forth his deplorable case in the most
pathetic terms, and entreated him, with the most abject humility, to
use his influence in his behalf. The distress of this varlet immediately
disarmed M-- of his resentment, and even excited his compassion. Without
sending any answer to his remonstrances, he interceded for him with his
creditors; and the person to whom he was chiefly indebted, refusing to
release him without security, this unwearied benefactor joined with the
prisoner in a bond for above two hundred and forty pounds, for which he
obtained his release.

"He was no sooner discharged, however, than he entered into fresh
combinations with G-- and others, in order to thwart his deliverer in
his schemes of